Goldsmiths’ Fair supports FOLD(s) at NYC Jewelry Week 2024
NYC Jewelry Week 2024, 18-24 November
Jewel Practices exhibition: 18-24 November, Steuben Gallery C at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
Shared Practices symposia: Monday 18 and Saturday 23 November, Pratt Institute
That’s right, Goldsmiths’ Fair is headed Stateside!
For more than four decades, Goldsmiths’ Fair has brought together a selection of the UK’s best contemporary jewellers and silversmiths in an annual selling exhibition in the City of London. In this time, we have supported the careers of hundreds of makers, including members of FOLD(s), a community of emerging and mid-career artists, metalsmiths and jewellers, all of whom are researchers teaching the next generation of jewellery and metal-based practices at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art.
Goldsmiths’ Fair is joined by the Royal College of Art and Pratt Institute in sponsorship of FOLD(s) as they deliver two public exhibitions and two symposia during NYCJW24. The Goldsmiths’ Fair team are hopping across the pond to support FOLD(s) and introduce our shared practice of bringing together creativity and curating critical dialogues in contemporary metalwork.
From 18 to 24 November in Steuben Gallery C at Pratt Institute, FOLD(s), sponsored by Goldsmiths’ Fair, presents Jewel Practices, an exhibition that challenges the perception of jewellery as a hard social substance made of hard metals. Work by Jonathan Boyd, Maisie Broadhead, Sally Collins, Katharina Dettar, Lucie Gledhill, Roxanne Simone, Adi Toch and Max Warren will converse in dialogues about our need for jewellery to be soft and yielding, mouldable to fit around and into our material and immaterial interactions. Together, their jewel practices emphasise that jewellery is a distinct way of thinking.
As part of Jewel Practices, Goldsmiths’ Fair will present a specially created video installation by Petr & Co. Our installation will showcase the craft and creations of our Goldsmiths’ Fair exhibitors and celebrate the skills and talent in UK metalwork today.
We’re also excited to be part of the Royal College of Art-sponsored Shared Practices Symposium 2: The soft & squeeze on Saturday 23 November. FOLD(s) artists will be disseminating their research to NYCJW audiences over two days:
Shared Practices stems from the curiosities that drive the exhibition, Jewel Practices. The symposium will take the significance of “sharing” as its central tenet and will feature a multidirectional approach to defining narratives of contemporary importance. It will include a mixture of lecture, performances, discussions, readings, and chaotic, turbulent, and sensuous reasonings between global artists. We will talk, listen, look, question, and gesture towards things of matter and that matter now. The symposium takes for granted that creativity is critical and through these new methodologies confronts something that both informs and yields (that is, malleable).
Goldsmiths’ Fair’s Georgina Izzard will chair ‘Artists in a Social Sphere’, a discussion between Maisie Broadhead, Lucie Gledhill, Sabrina Schreurs and Roxanne Simone. This talk is followed by an introduction to the shared practices at the heart of Goldsmiths’ Fair.
The Goldsmiths’ Fair team will also be out and about, meeting our US supporters and championing the work of our exhibitors to new collectors, specialists and connoisseurs. To all our friends in the US, please spread the word and come to say hello!
Shared Practices – Symposia
Monday, November 18 | The Fold and the Flow
2:00 PM: Proximal Poetics: Jewelry and the Edge of Bodily Knowing – Moderated by Jonathan Boyd, Professor Johnny Golding and Dr Patricia Domingues. This session explores the relationship between technology, art, and the materiality of jewelry in the digital era.
3:30 PM: Materialities of Metal and Memory – Practitioners Sally Collins, Adi Toch, Max Warren and Katharina Dettar discuss how metal can express narratives and convey memory through physical and symbolic qualities.
Saturday, November 23 | The Soft and the Squeeze
1:30 PM: Chatting – Artists in a Social Sphere – A conversation between artists Maisie Broadhead, Lucie Gledhill, Sabina Schreurs and Roxanne Simone, moderated by Fair Officer Georgina Izzard
3:00 PM: Goldsmiths’ Fair – Part of the Fold – For NYCJW24, the Goldsmiths’ Fair team are jumping across the pond to support FOLD(s) and introduce our shared practice of bringing together creativity and curating critical dialogues in contemporary metalwork. With Goldsmiths’ Fair team member and design historian Georgina Izzard
About NYCJW
Each November, NYC Jewelry Week proudly presents ‘The Week,’ a 7-day celebration dedicated to the art of jewelry. This annual event invites a global audience to explore the world of jewelry through a dynamic mix of in-person and virtual experiences, spanning New York City and beyond.
With talks, exhibitions and workshops every day, there’s a lot to see and do during NYCJW24 – check out the full programme here
About FOLD(s)
The exhibition, “Jewel Practices”, and symposium, “Shared Practices”, at NYC Jewelry Week 2024, marks the first public coming-together of the research group and community FOLD(s). Taking their name from the desire to draw emerging artists into the fold of contemporary jewellery art, while also giving a nod to the folding of metal into alloys and the folds of matter, meaning, and reality that so inform their work. FOLD(s) are defined by their differing approaches which align through their proximity, influence on each other, pedagogical collaboration, and the ways in which their ideas and practices stem from a generational bridging of the pre- and post-digital ages.